Sociative case


The sociative case in the Hungarian language can express the person in whose company the action is carried out, or to any belongings of people which take part in the action. It is denoted by the suffixes -stul and -stül, depending on vowel harmony. This case is archaic and nowadays the instrumental-comitative case is usually used instead. Nevertheless, it can be used also in modern Hungarian to express a slight pejorative tone against a person. Here are a few examples:
The use of the sociative case kölyköstül signifies the speaker's contempt. The case appears also in some commonly used expressions, which survived the general obsolescence of the sociative case: